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From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-17 08:34:47


Douglas Gregor wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 April 2003 05:16 pm, David Abrahams wrote:
> > Douglas Gregor <gregod_at_[hidden]> writes:
> > > What? No BOOST_ROOT? The boostbook module should now be able to deal
> > > with that, although using BoostBook will be broken.
> >
> > You shouldn't require BOOST_ROOT in the environment. Boost itself
> > should be explicitly configurable in the user-config.jam or
> > site-config.jam files, and otherwise you should assume an appropriate
> > location relative to the boostbook.jam module file.
>
> Is there an existing routine that would make getting this path easier?

Yes.

[ modules.binding boostbook ]

will return the path where boostbook module is located.

- Volodya

 


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